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Japan invades Manchuria
Japan invester vast amounts of money into Manchuria. Also, League of Nations caused many blames. -
Mussolini invades Ethiopia
It was the first time mustard gas and phosgene gas was used illegally. Italy invaded Ethiopia based on the promise of Mussolini that he would acquire a place in the sun for his country so that the Italian Empire could match the colonial giants like France and Britian. -
Japan invades China
It was a mass murder and war rape. Hunders of thousands of Chinese civialians were murdered by the Imperial Japanese Army. -
Hitler annexed Austria
Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government. Chancellor learning of the conspiracy, met with Adolf Hitler in the hopes of reasserting his country's independence but instead bullied into naming several top Austrian Nazis to his cabinet. -
Czehoslovakian Crisis
Hitler ordered his generals to start to make plans for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. He also ordered Henlein and his followers to start to create trouble in the Sudetenland, therefore proving to the outside world that the Czech government was incapable of maintaining order in its own state. -
Germany invades Poland- WW11 Begins
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy was that after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland. This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. -
Invasion on Norway
Hitler had issued the order for the invasion of Norway on March 1st under the code word “Weserübung”. Control of Norway’s extensive coastline would have been very important in the battle for control of the North Sea and easing the passage of German warships and submarines into the Atlantic. -
Battle of MInsk
The encirclement of the Red Army forces around Minsk, was accomplished. All major Russian counter-attacks and break-through attempts failed and the defenders were defeated, allowing for the Wehrmacht to take many Soviet prisoners and to further advance into the Soviet Union at a pace so swift that some believed the Germans had effectively won the war against Russia already. -
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After just two hours of bombing, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships had either been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed. -
U.S. declares war on Japan
It was the intent of the Japanese to uphold the conventions of war while still achieving surprise, but the attack began before the notice could be delivered. Tokyo transmitted the 5,000-word notification in two blocks to the Japanese Embassy in Washington. However, transcription took too long for the ambassador to deliver it in time. Even so, the notification was worded so that it actually neither declared war nor severed diplomatic relations.
